Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I know of a couple of people who use adhesive backed small rubber bumpers such as feet for chairs and the like instead of fitting a ThumbsUp. I like the feel of mine personally. I don't carry my camera on a neck strap so maybe that is one reason I have never been TU-poked. Lefties on the other hand are long used to having to bend our physiognomy to a right eyed world. In a pre-digital M world you could easily have your right eye poked by that protruding film advance lever. I seem to have trained that out of myself by the M8. On the form factor there are some folks in the L Camera Forum too who believe that the M body should be completely redesigned. Personally I think that it would be a mistake for Leica to change the form factor at all in the market. Ask Olympus for example when they started into dSLRs with a clean slate and no film hangovers. Look what their cameras look like now. That is what customers tastes reflect. That is no cmoment on utility and design, only on what is successful in the market place. Look how the dSLR has evolved and compare it to what Leica Camera has done with a 24x36 sensor in it. Something can be said for as little change as possible in the form factor. http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2009/09/page/3/ Just my two classically inclined purist two cents. Cheers Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman On 16 August 2010 12:22, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> wrote: > I gave my thumbs up away for the same reason. Just learned to hold my > thumb against the back of the camera. The more I think about it, the > more there are too many stupid hangovers in the M8 and M9 from the M3 > design that were necessitated by film without adding more. > > Marty > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:15 AM, J. Newell <john.o.newell at comcast.net> > wrote: > > > > > > Never noticed. Being poked by my Thumbs Up, that is. ;-) > > > > > > > > Seriously. > > > > > > > > John Newell > > > > > > > > > > ----- Forwarded Message ----- > > From: "Tina Manley" <images at comporium.net> > > To: "Leica Users Group" <> > > Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2010 6:14:23 PM > > Subject: Re: [Leica] Alternative to Thumbs-up? > > > > I've never even noticed it. Maybe having boobs is an advantage! > > > > Tina > > > > On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> > wrote: > > > >> OK, I like the TU a lot, it helps to stabilize the camera etc., except > for > >> one thing. > >> > >> When I am hanging the camera on my neck, it pokes at me. Short duration > is > >> not so bad, but it's really a pain in the side, literally. > >> > >> Are there alternatives? Does it not bother other people? > >> > >> Thanks. > >> > >> -- > >> // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> > >> // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.wordpress.com> > >> // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> > >> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all > previous > >> replies in your msgs. ] > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > Tina Manley, ASMP > > www.tinamanley.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >